Tag: BRCA gene

• Breast and Ovarian Cancer Screening

  I am sometimes troubled by the concept of risk. I mean how can we possibly decide whether or not a risk is acceptable? No matter the statistics, if the issue under consideration doesn’t happen, then the risk assumed was acceptable. So far, so good. But of course the converse is also true: no matter how low the risk,…

  gozzter

  November 12, 2014

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  BRCA gene, BRCA1, BRCA2, breast cancer, cancer, cancer screening, Founder effects, guessing, hereditary breast cancer, lottery, male breast cancer, ovarian cancer, prediction, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, risk, Risk of medicai, Statistics, triple negative breast cancer

• The Awe of BRCA

  Awe: the word has been pasteurized, connotized almost beyond recognition. But I suppose that’s what happens to all really powerful words. There’s a life-span to language; a generation if you’re lucky; a year if social media gets hold of it –likes it… But I think the ship of awe and all of its elegance went down quickly -even before…

  gozzter

  July 3, 2013

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  Awe in Nature, Awe in Science, BRCA gene, Genetics, Medical screening, philosophy, vexing questions, wellness, women’s health